Career
He was the brother of the famed Mashpia Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas. Hendel was born in Pleshchenitsy, Belarus as Chenoch Hendel Futerfas. Breina and the two girls were killed by a Nazi Einsatzgruppe in 1941, in Brahin, Belarus, while Hendel was serving in the Russian army.
In 1946, Hendel left the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics using forged Polish papers.
Afraid that the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) would track him down, he changed his surname to Lieberman. Hendel Lieberman"s art is noted for its depiction of Jewish and Hasidic life and customs.
His paintings hang in a number of museums including the New York Metropolitan Museum of, London’s Tate Gallery, and museums in Paris.